The group was founded by Jay Schreiber, a manager at Nathaniel Square in the South Wedge. “They’re a part of life here,” he said.

Here are some posts from the page:

“In the D&C article they say to call 311 to report where the crows are roosting. I think we should call 311 to complain about the disturbances being caused trying to get rid of the crows. Who wants fireworks going off in their neighborhood all hours of the night?”

“They roost in the trees outside my apartment building. Some evenings we have quite the conversations as I arrive home from work. They speak more intelligently than any politician I know.”

“It’s been said already, but it can be said again – this is not only a giant waste of time and money, but it’s invasive to animal rights. I cannot BELIEVE the city is orchestrating this when there are real problems to be facing. What a JOKE.”

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“But they poop, and bird poop is gross, and it ruins the paint job on our cars and that is so worth spending money to scare off animals that are otherwise not a problem and also sacred to indigenous culture.” I think the reasoning goes something like that.

I’m happy the crows have made a comeback as a result of a better environment.
But, get serious! 20,000 crows around the park. That’s absurd, and they need to go, for health reasons if no other.
If you have a few in your yard, good for you. But a few aren’t the health menace these are, and this save the crows thing is ridiculous. Next thing they’ll want to save is the mosquito.
Geez! Get a life.

I have lived on Gregory for 26 years and the crows have been her for a long time-I would imagine they will return. I miss them in my back yard and winging over the wedge at dusk form the south tto the north!

You’ve got to be kidding me! “Ooooh, it’s so cruel to scare the poor little birdies”…empathetic tree huggers, get a life…give me a break! You know, I like birds and I think crows are cool too – and smart. But everyone getting upset because we don’t need 25,000 of them all over the city…the birds will be just fine, give it a rest. (Unless they want to all hang out in Washington Park, there are lots of good targets for them there!)

I’d like to see the population models that show a long-term decline from this intervention. Usually you have to modify habitat, food supply, water supply as well, otherwise the survivors breed to huge populations in the ensuing time of plenty. Or other denizens move into the vacant niche. I presume that someone has done this homework as part of the planning process…